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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guns and shells bearing the well-known trade-mark Skoda, made in Czechoslovakia will henceforth go only to those countries in goosestep with Hitler. The French Schneider-Creusot interests, which since 1920 have had a big interest in Skoda, Europe's second largest munitions works, last week sold their shares to CzechoSlovak interests. For thus recognizing "changed conditions" in eastern Europe, the former French shareholders were paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Skoda Sale | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...auctioneers, ornithologists and explorers, magicians and Presidents of the U. S. Actors have always formed a powerful minority. Only dramatic critics are excluded by rule-to avoid the possible embarrassment of having them run into actors they have panned. The long list of celebrated members includes Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Sir Henry Irving, the elder J. P. Morgan, Elihu Root, John Singer Sargent (whose Edwin Booth hangs in the club), George Bellows, John Philip Sousa, Richard Mansfield, and the club's three Presidents who followed Booth-Joseph Jefferson, John Drew and Walter Hampden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First Fifty | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...days a week with the aid of a battery of experts, have been the six railroaders-Presidents Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania and Ernest Eden Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, President Bert Mark Jewell of the Railway Employes' Department of A. F. of L. and President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Last week, after Messrs. Gray and Harrison again conferred with Franklin Roosevelt, the committee finally reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Carrier Cudgeling | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Among this gang Mark Cullen was handicapped by his size and social position. He was a skinny, frail moppet, whose father was rural superintendent of schools. But he had plenty of nerve, and on Hallowe'en night (one of the funniest as well as the least printable episodes in the book), or on their petty thieving raids, Mark was as tough as the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scatterfield Gang | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Although Inn of That Journey is far more candidly documented than Huckleberry Finn, it lacks something else for which its candor does not compensate: the literary verve of Mark Twain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scatterfield Gang | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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